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Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616 https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
by atularora 15y ago
Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616 https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
- potatolicious 15y agoWow. Just wow. Just when you think they couldn't possibly bungle this any further. tl;dr: MS rep apologizes and invites him back for a rematch. Because it's like he hasn't already won the challenge or something.
- zalew 15y agodid you just provide a TLDR for a tweet?!
- Brajeshwar 15y agoAnd I voted him for that. I don't have to click, switch tab and read the tweet. :-)
- jsnell 15y agoI appreciate it, given how long a web page showing a single tweet takes to load.
- ben0x539 15y agoFollowing a twitter link involves copying the url, pasting it to the address bar, backspacing the "#!/" and adding "m." before twitter.com, because twitter's dumb hashbang scheme can't deal with noscript. Reading the tl;dr is much faster!
- xenophanes 15y agoThe link works for me in mac safari.
- ranit8 15y agoI use noscript and I get this horrible url, but it shows the correct tweet (i'm not logged in). Yet it's much better reading the posted tldr. https://twitter.com/BenThePCGuy/statuses/184123838949359616?_escaped_fragment_=/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
- eavc 15y agoIn this case, TL should stand for 'twitter link.' They can be a pain. : )
- GFischer 15y agoWell, in my case I have Twitter (and Facebook) banned at work. Fortunately I'm the only one wasting my time on Hacker News, otherwise it'd be blocked as well. Edit: the recommendation "flee any company that filters your Internet" also applies to my case.
- manojlds 15y agoYou mean to say "in other 140 characters" instead of the "tl;dr" :)
- leviathan 15y agoMaybe the L here is for the twitter page loading time. ;)
- gcp 15y agoThat is not an apology.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoIt technically classifies as an apology I guess. He followed up with a clarification that he wasn't there and will "make it right". https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184161094774964224 https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184161094774964224
- MichaelApproved 15y ago"Relax guys!" Nothing makes me calm down more than someone telling me to relax. And the exclamation point at the end is especially soothing.
- swang 15y ago"I see I cheated you out of a laptop. Come back and we'll cheat you again, but this time more fairly!"
- dagw 15y agoSome generic company apologist, unrelated to the events in question, (kind of) apologized. Until the manager in question who is actually responsible apologies, I don't see why that should count for anything. This is becoming a depressingly common pattern, big company screws up then someone completely unrelated offers a generic apology while the people actually responsible never say anything. If the apology isn't from the someone involved in the screw-up then it doesn't count. And while we're busy apologizing, perhaps the person responsible for this stupid PR event should apologies to Microsoft for further damaging an already tarnished brand.
- AgentConundrum 15y agoBen Rudolph isn't "[s]ome generic company apologist, unrelated to the events in question" - he's one of the guys behind the Smoked By Windows Phone promotion.[1] [1] http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/01/10/i-ve-got-100-that-says-your-smartphone-will-get-smokedbywindowsphone.aspx http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/arch...
- mlreed328 15y agoRematch? How about you pony up the hardware you owe the person? Lame with a side of lame.